Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

engineers in some manner.
HENRY GEORGE, A. J. Steers, Rev. Mr..
Mccarthy and Frank Ferril, the negro
Knight of Labor, began the United Labor
campaign in New York City on the night
of the seth by speaking from a truck at
One Hundred and Fifth Street and Third
avenue. There was a large crowd pres
emit.
Hon. c. C. MAMMINGRR, of Charleston,
s. c., ex-Confederate Secretary of the
Treasury, and one of President Davis
most trusted friends and confidential ad-
visers, is seriously ill at his summer resi-
dence at Flat Rock, S. c. He is not ex-
pected to recover.
THE President has issued G proclama-
ton allowing the free entry of the arms,
munitions and baggage of such foreign
military organizations as may desire to
participate in the National military en-
in October next.
PRANZINI, the murderer, was guillotined
at Paris on the 31st.
THE conference of the Society of Char
tiles and Corrections adjourned at Omaha
on the 31st to meet next year in Buffalo,
Ny.
PROPOSALS were opened at Washington
on the 31st for the sale of So, 455, 400 United
States four and half per cent bonds to
the Government.
In parliamentary election at Hatfield,
| England, on the 31st, the Gladstonians
showed a great increase Of voting
strength.
THE Pennsylvania State Democratic con-
| vention was held at Allenstown, on the
31st. The Randall and anti-Randall ele-
| ments coalesced and a harmonious plat
form was adopted.
|
ercised over the case of the German bark
Highflyer. 1t is claimed the vessel was
| fired to secure heavy insurance.
| THE Iowa Greenback convention at Des
/ Moines was a fiasco. 1t nominated no
ticket, Endorsed the Union Labor people
| and recommended "non-partisan" nomi-
| nations.
| THE Secretary of the Navy has ordered
a trial trip of the new cruiser Boston, now
| at New York. The trial will be six hours
| under full steam in Long Island Sound.
| MARK GARRETT is reported to have been
murdered and robbed at McAllister, l. T.,
on the 31st.
THE United States Express Company
has secured by purchase a thirty years
control of the franchises of the Baltimore
/ & Ohio Express.
1 IT is sem-officially announced that
| Supreme Court of Illinois will, on the 9th
| inst, render a decision affirming the re-
| suit of the Chicago Anarchists trial.
A RIPPLE of excitement has been caused
| at Washington by the report of an assault
| by Judge Zubia upon United States Consul
| General Brigham.
| JAMES III. MEACHAM, a prominent map
| publisher of Detroit, Mich, was accident
ally shot on the Both while hunting near
| York, Neb., and died soon after.
|
| of the Insane asylum on Wards Island,
N. Y, states that out of 1,750 inmates of
| the asylum 800 of them are perfectly sane
| and 1000 harmless.
| Mrs. SIEDS,w who was to have been hanged
| at Tahlequah. l. T., on the I'd, for the MUIR
| der of her grandchild, to hide her daugh-
| ter's shame, has been respited until No
Eember /.
| MAJOR J. E. D. CoUzINs. United States
| Marshal for the Eastern district of Mis-
| souri,, died at his home in st. Louis early
on the morning of the list, aged seventy
/ four years
JUDGE SAWYER of the United States
Court at San Francisco gave a dinner on
| the 80th to Senator Stanford, Justice
| Field, of the Federal Supreme Court, Judge
| Hoffman and several prominent railroad
| officials.
| THE work of evicting the tenants in ar
| rears on the O'Grady estates, in Ireland,
was concluded on the 31st without fur
| Their rioting. A bed-ridden woman, who
! refused to be installed as care-taker, was
removed with her bed outdoors.
Rev. DIR. SEYMOUR, alias Coverdale, the
| man who ran away from GAINESVILLE, Mimi,
| with Editor Henry's wife was arraigned
| in jefferson Market police court, New
| York, on the 31st and was discharged, the
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/ issue requsition for him.
G. W. WILKINS, an extensive lumber
dealer and boat builder, of Kittaning, Pa,
| who recently made an assignment, has
1 fed to Canada He writes that he is now
| in Toronto and will not return unless a
proposition for the compromise which he
has made to his creditors is accepted.
THE livery barn of j. H. Coles, in De-
troit, Mich, was burned on the morning
of the 31st, with it's contents. George S.
Hall, a farmer near Mount Clemens, sixty
five years old, persisted in the flames and
his son Henry Hall, about twenty years
old, and a farmer named John Pearsel,
| barely escaped.
| PROF. CHEYRULE, the noted French
chemist, was one hundred and three years
old ON the 31st- He is in perfect health.
He attended a meeting of the agricultural
society and made pleasant speech,
thanking his colleagues for a bouquet they
had presented him.
| BISHOP WIN. L HARRIS, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was reported dying at
New York on the Asst.
ENGLAND and Belgium have reached a
serious point in their fishery dispute.
The present troubles in Cuba are said to
be due to the efforts of General Marin
! to break up dishonesty in the Havana
| custom house
MORE "White Caps outrages are report
ed from Harrison County, Ind.
THE public debt, less cash in the treas
ury, is now 81 ,269, IA 1866. 1t was reduced
during August s., S09,415.
| A DISPATCH from Teheran SAYS it is re-
ported that Ayoub Khan is still in Persian
territory and is trying to enter Afghan
iStau.
AT the latest returns from the Tonic
Basin, Arizona, eleven persons were re-
ported killed in the feuds which distract
that region.
A FIRE which started in the Cafe Egyp-
tian at Cairo, Egypt. on the LIST, destroyed
a whole block of buildings. The loss is
heavy.
SENATOR SHERMAN was at the Ohio wool
growers convention on the 1st, and
pledged himself to "give earnest and
hearty support next winter to measures to
protect wool by all means in our power"
! EMPEROR WILLIAM and all the members
| of the imperial household were present at
the parade of the Guards in Berlin on
! the LIST.
| THE Commercial Cable Company has re-
| duced its rates.
In consequence of the ill-treatment of
Jews at Novgorod, Russia, General Bara-
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